Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Outlines Support of LGBT+

Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has promised her commitment to the LGBT+ community.

“As Attorney General, [LGBT+ rights] was one of the pivotal issues,” Harris said. “Prop 8 went to the United States Supreme Court, we won, and wedding bells rang across the country.”

Harris previously served as District Attorney for San Francisco.

“Around the Matthew Shepard era,” she explained, “I brought DAs [District Attorneys] from around the country to San Francisco where I hosted training for prosecutors around the country, on how to defeat the ‘gay panic defence.'”

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